Netexceed blog by Jason Mohan» Netexceed by Jason Mohan http://www.jasonmohan.com I am an IT professional who loves to stay on the leading edge of technology, and tries to tackle most commonly faced issues by computer users, and administrators. Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:18:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Max users on a Blackberry Enterprise Server http://www.jasonmohan.com/blackberry/max-users-on-a-blackberry-enterprise-server/ http://www.jasonmohan.com/blackberry/max-users-on-a-blackberry-enterprise-server/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:54:22 +0000 Jason Mohan http://netexceed.com/?p=159 How many users can you put on a blackberry server? I wasn’t sure either, but below are the numbers I got from tech support at RIM. This is for a blackberry server connected to exchange. Let us know if you’re able to get more on with no issues.

BES with MSDE: 200-250 users

BES with SQL (sql on a different machine): 2000-2500 users

]]> http://www.jasonmohan.com/blackberry/max-users-on-a-blackberry-enterprise-server/feed/ 1 Moving BES from an MSDE database to SQL http://www.jasonmohan.com/blackberry/moving-bes-from-an-msde-database-to-sql/ http://www.jasonmohan.com/blackberry/moving-bes-from-an-msde-database-to-sql/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:51:46 +0000 Jason Mohan http://netexceed.com/?p=161 So how do you move from MSDE to SQL on you BES server? If you didn’t know already MSDE can only handle about 200-250 users with Blackberry Server Enterprise. Though officially from Microsoft on paper it says 500, but according to blackberry support personnel it’s only 200-250 before you start expercining delays with email from you blackberry server or handheld. So what’s the process and how complicated is it was my question? Now that I’ve done it, I can tell you it’s pretty easy. Here’s the link to the KB 12247 that fully describes the process, but below I’ll give you a brief overview.

1. Create the BES admin user on you sql server

2. Run the createdb.exe tool, so it creates the sql database (you’ll need this from the orginial installation cd of you BES server, or you can download it from the internet).

3. Give the BES admin user dbo and public rights to the datbase

4. Stop the services on the BES server

5. Backup the database using OSQL -E at the command line.

6. Restore the database to the SQL database that was created by the createdb tool.

7. Change the database on the Blackberry server configuration.

8. Restart all the services.

9. Change the database on the ODBC system dsn if you are 3.0 or 4.0.

10. Don’t forget to change the database in the Blackberry manager (or domain), by right clicking and choosing properties, then choose database, and make sure that information is correct.

That’s it, very simple and easy not as hard as I thought it was initially.

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